16th International Winds Workshop May 8 - 12, 2023 Montréal, Québec

Date	Sessions
Sunday, 7 May 2023	Registration at Hyatt Place Montreal – Downtown
Monday, 8 May 2023	Welcome, Session 1, and Part I of Session 2, Poster Session
Tuesday, 9 May 2023	Part II of Session 2, Plenary Discussion and Part I of Session 3
Wednesday, 10 May 2023	Part II of Session 3, Session 4, Plenary Discussion
Thursday, 11 May 2023	Part I of Session 5, Working Groups 1 and 2
Friday, 12 May 2023	Part II of Session 5, Session 6, and Closing

Sunday

Time (EDT) Title
19:00 – 21:00 Registration at Hyatt Place Montreal

Monday

Time  (EDT)	Title	Presenter
9:00 – 9:30	Registration UQAM Conference Room, Judith-Jasmin Pavilion, Pierre-Bourgault Room (J-1450)
9:30 – 9:45	Welcome address (ECCC and UQAM)	Stéphane Laroche, IWWG co-chairs
9:45 – 10:00	CGMS Actions / Recommendations	Jaime Daniels
	Session 1: STATUS OF OPERATIONAL AMVs	Chairs: Jaime Daniels, Stéphane Laroche
10:00 – 10:15	Status of Operational and Future Atmospheric Wind Products at EUMETSAT	Régis Borde
10:15 – 10:30	Operational Wind Products at NOAA/NESDIS	Hongming Qi (remote)
10:30 – 10:45	Status of AMVs from Fengyun Satellites	Xiaohu Zhang (remote)
10:45 – 11:15	BREAK
11:15 – 11:30	Current Status and Plans of Operational Wind Products at JMA/MSC	Kazuki Shimoji
11:30 – 11:45	NWCSAF/High Resolution Winds; AMV Software for Geostationary and Polar Satellites – Status in 2023	Javier García Pereda
11:45 – 13:30	LUNCH (Self Guided)
	Session 2, Part I: AMV DERIVATION AND QUALITY	Chairs: Jason Apke, Manuel Carranza
13:30 – 13:45	Status of Development of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV) Capabilities at NOAA	Jaime Daniels
13:45 – 14:00	Improving the reliability of AMV height assignments: a study using ABI cases of the IWWG intercomparison and OCA cloud properties retrievals	A. Bozzo
14:00 – 14:15	Experimental VIIRS AMV Products: Expanding Beyond the use of a Single Satellite	Richard Dworak (remote)
14:15 – 14:30	Comparisons of the Traditional Feature Matching and Optical Flow Algorithms for Atmospheric Motion Vector Estimation	Igor Yanovsky (remote)
14:30 – 14:45	Advances in Stereo Winds	J. Carr
14:45 – 15:00	A New Capability for Monitoring Multi-Level Tropospheric Winds	Michael A. Kelly
15:00 – 15:30	BREAK
15:30 – 16:25	POSTER PRESENTATIONS
15:30 – 15:35	The EUMETSAT AVHRR and SLSTR AMV Tropical Speed Biases Pattern Explained	Kevin Barbieux (remote)
15:35 – 15:40	Comparing Effects of Quality Indicator Thresholds for Atmospheric Motion Vectors in NAVGEM	Rebecca E. Stone (remote)
15:40 – 15:45	A New Technique for Composite Maps of Ocean Winds	Marouan Bouali (remote)
15:45 – 15:50	Status of Atmospheric Motion Vectors Production and use at CPTEC/INPE	Renato Galante Negri
15:50 – 15:55	Study of Technical Issues Arising in the Tracking Process of Rapid Scan AMV	Kazuki Shimoji
15:55 – 16:00	Status of AMV Assimilation in ECMWF’s IFS Model	Francis Warrick
16:00 – 16:05	Met Office AMV Processing in JEDI	James Cotton
16:05 – 16:10	The Contribution of Aeolus Wind Observations to Global Sea Surface Wind Forecast	Haichen Zuo (remote)
16:10 – 16:15	On the Potential Application to Wind Detection of Canadian HAWC Mission with NASA’s Atmosphere Observing System AOS	J.-P. Blanchet
16:15 – 16:20	Microwave (118-GHz) Doppler techniques for mesospheric winds: MLS and EZIE	Dong L. Wu
16:20 – 16:25	Impact of AEOLUS Observations in a Regional NWP Model During Strong Wind Events	Ad Stoffelen
17:00 – 19:00	ICE BREAKER AND POSTER VIEWING (UQAM)

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Tuesday

Time  (EDT)	Title	Presenter
	Session 2, Part II: AMV DERIVATION AND QUALITY	Chairs: Jason Apke, Manuel Carranza
9:00 – 9:15	A New Paradigm for the Derivation of LEO AMVs Without Wind Guess	Kevin Barbieux (remote)
9:15 – 9:30	Use of AMV Cross Correlation Matrices and the NWP guess to further explore accuracy of AMVs	Graeme Kelly (remote)
9:30 – 9:45	Advances in Optical Flow Retrieval Methods for Inferring Atmospheric Winds and Motions	Jason Apke
9:45 – 10:00	Diurnal Variations of 3D-Wind Cloud Height and Winds From Hurricanes and PBL	Dong Wu
10:00 – 10:45	BREAK
10:45 – 11:00	PLENARY – 4th AMV Intercomparison	David Santek (remote)
11:00 – 11:45	PLENARY DISCUSSION	IWWG
11:45 – 13:30	LUNCH (SELF GUIDED)
	Session 3, Part I: USE OF SATELLITE DERIVED WINDS IN NWP	Chairs: Alexander Cress
13:45 – 14:00	Current State of Satellite-Derived Wind Assimilation in NCEP GSI	Brett Hoover (remote)
14:00 – 14:15	Recent and Upcoming Changes in Satellite Wind Usage in U.S. Navy NWP	Brian Blaylock
14:15 – 14:30	Recent Work Using Satellite Winds at the German Weather Service	Alexander Cress
14:30 – 14:45	Status of Satellite Winds Use in the Météo-France NWP System	Christophe Payan
14:45 – 15:15	BREAK
15:15 – 15:30	Upgrades of Polar AMVs Use In JMA’s Global NWP System	Kenichi Nonaka
15:30 – 15:45	Assessment of AMV Quality Using Cloud Information and Tracking Parameters	Francis Warrick
15:45 – 16:00	Estimation of AMV Height Assignment Errors Using Model Best-Fit Pressure and AEOLUS Height Data	Stéphane Laroche
16:00 – 16:15	Evaluation of Dual Geostationary Stereo Winds in NAVGEM	Rebecca E. Stone (remote)
16:15 – 16:30	Testing of GOES-18 Atmospheric Motion Vectors in NAVGEM	Rebecca E. Stone (remote)
16:30	END OF DAY

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Wednesday

Time  (EDT)	Title	Presenter
	Session 3, Part II: USE OF SATELLITE DERIVED WINDS IN NWP	Chairs: Alexander Cress
9:00 – 9:15	Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors in an Operational Global NWP System : A Multi-Year Study	Sumit Kumar (remote)
9:15 – 9:30	The Locally Processed Atmospheric Motion Vector Data at MET Norway	Roger Randriamampianina (remote)
	Session 4: OCEAN SURFACE WINDS	Chairs: Feng Lu, Ad Stoffelen
9:30 – 9:45	BF-1 GNSS-R Sea Surface Wind Speed Retrieval and Observing System Experiments	Feng Lu (remote)
9:45 – 10:00	GNSS-R Data Assimilation Efforts at Spire Global: From Ocean Winds to DDM’s	Karina Apodaca
10:00 – 10:30	BREAK
10:30 – 10:45	Sea Surface Wind Speed Retrieval using NanYue (NY) GNSS Reflectometry	Yun Zhang (remote)
10:45 – 11:00	MIDAS – Mesoscale Improved Data Assimilation of Scatterometer Winds	Ad Stoffelen
11:00 – 11:15	PLENARY – Progress in Ocean Surface Vector Winds	Ad Stoffelen
11:15 – 12:00	PLENARY DISCUSSION	IWWG
12:00 – 14:00	LUNCH (SELF GUIDED)
14:00 – 17:00	AFTERNOON ACTIVITY

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Thursday

Time  (EDT)	Title	Presenter
	Session 5: AEOLUS, 3D AMVs AND FUTURE MISSIONS	Chairs: Sara Tucker
9:00 – 9:15	Impact of Aeolus Horizontal Line-Of-Sight Wind Observations on Typhoon Forecasting in a Global NWP System	Izumi Okabe (remote)
9:15 – 9:30	How Well Do the Aeolus Winds Represent the Indian Summer Monsoon and North Indian Ocean Cyclone Features?	Indira Rani S. (remote)
9:30 – 9:45	CMA Geostationary Infrared Observation Dataset for 3D AMV Studies	Feng Lu (remote)
9:45 – 10:00	A Consolidated Assessment of the Impact of Aeolus Winds in Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF	Michael Rennie (remote)
10:00 -10:30	BREAK
10:30 – 10:45	EPS-Aeolus, Status of the European Doppler Wind Lidar Programme at EUMETSAT	Thomas Flament (remote)
10:45 -11:00	Assimilating Aeolus Wind Profiles – Assessing the Benefit of Using Variational Quality Control During Tropical Cyclones	Iliana Genkova
11:00 -11:15	Lidar Compass: A Comparative Assessment Study of Doppler Wind Lidar Technologies	Sara Tucker
11:15 – 11:30	Current Status of the IASI 3D Winds Product at EUMETSAT	Manuel Carranza
11:30 – 13:30	LUNCH (SELF GUIDED)
13:30 – 13:45	The Research and Operational Value of the Midwave Infrared Sounding of Temperature and Humidity in a Constellation for Winds (MISTiC Winds) Mission Concept	Scot Rafkin
13:45 – 14:00	Synergies Obtained from Combined Observations of MISTiC Winds, CMIS, and NGRx in a Micro-Satellite Constellation	Kevin R. Maschhoff
14:00 – 14:15	Retrieval of 3D Distribution of Horizontal Wind Vector by Combining Lidar with Passive Water Vapor Sounders	Svetla Hristova-Veleva
14:15 – 14:30	Global Three-Dimensional Water Vapor Feature-Tracking For Horizontal Winds Using Hyper-Spectral Infrared Sounder Data From Overlapped Tracks of Two Satellites	Amir Ouyed
14:30 – 14:45	Learning to Generate 3D Atmospheric Winds from Geostationary Imagery with Deep Optical Flow	TJ Vandal (remote)
	WORKING GROUPS 1 AND 2 DISCUSSIONS
14:45 – 15:00	Charge to working groups	IWWG co-chairs
15:00 – 17:00	Working Group 1	Javier García Pereda and Marie Doutriaux-Boucher
15:00 – 17:00	Working Group 2	Iliana Genkova and Mary Forsythe
15:45 – 16:15	BREAK
19:00 – 22:00	WORKSHOP DINNER

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Friday

Time  (EDT)	Title	Presenter
	Session 5, Part II: AEOLUS, 3D AMVs AND FUTURE MISSIONS	Chairs: Sara Tucker, Lidia Cucurull
9:00 – 9:15	ESA Earth Explorer 10 Harmony	Ad Stoffelen
9:15 – 9:30	Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) with 3D Winds From Space	Lidia Cucurull
9:30 – 9:45	Impact of WIVERN Horizontal Line-Of-Sight Wind Profiles on the Global NWP model of Météo-France Using an Ensemble Data Assimilation Method	Nicolas Sasso
	Session 6: REPROCESSING AND CLIMATE APPLICATIONS	Chair(s): Marie Doutriaux- Boucher
9:45 – 10:05	The EUMETSAT Sustainable Production of Atmospheric Motion Vectors Climate Data Records	Marie Doutriaux- Boucher
10:05 – 10:20	A New Climate Data Record of the Ocean Surface Winds, Stress and Their Dynamically-Significant Derivatives – Vorticity and Divergence: Supporting Studies of Trends and Variability in the Large-Scale Circulation	Svetla Hristova-Veleva
10:20 – 10:35	System for Analysis of Wind Collocations (SAWC): A Novel Archive and Collocation Application for the Intercomparison of Winds from Multiple Observing Platforms Provide for Aeolus Evaluation	Katherine Lukens (remote)
10:35 – 11:00	BREAK
	CLOSING
11:00 – 11:15	IWW16 WG1 Discussion
11:15 – 11:30	IWW16 WG2 Discussion
11:30 -12:00	Conference Wrap Up

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